User:Salvationistdan/sandbox

Brandi waters is an American educator who is best known for her role in the creation of the AP African American Studies course created by College Board.

Education
B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in Latin American History from Johns Hopkins University. Waters earned her PhD from Yale University in 2021 a combined PhD program in History (Latin American) and African American Studies. Her dissertation was titled, "Defects": Slavery, Disability, Doctors, and the Law in Late Colonial Cartagena and Philadelphia."

Career
Waters is the senior director of AP African American Studies, the new college-level course for advanced-placement students in high school. The course was created by College Board.

In 2022, she oversaw the development of the new African American Studies course.

In February 2022, Florida governor Ron DeSantis blocked the course, citing educational ??? . The New York Times accused College Board of stripping down the course curriculum to appease conservatives. Waters responded by asserting that "College Board does not bend to politics," and that the Time's article was not factual.